Hood cleaning
The hood itself: canopy, baffle filters, grease troughs and the plenum cavity behind the filters, plus what Type 1 and Type 2 hoods each need.
Hood Cleaning in Nepean, Ontario
Hood cleaning is the scheduled removal of cooking grease from a commercial kitchen exhaust system before that grease can fuel a fire: the canopy over the cook line, the baffle filters, the plenum cavity behind them, the accessible duct, and the rooftop exhaust fan. Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros does that work for kitchens across Nepean, Barrhaven, Bells Corners and Manotick to the published NFPA 96 standard, which the Ontario Fire Code and commercial insurers use as the technical baseline. Pricing starts at $385 per visit, work runs overnight or before opening, and every job closes with photo proof and a signed certificate.
Work to the NFPA 96 Standard
Photo Proof of Every Surface
Overnight and Early-Morning Visits
Nepean, Barrhaven and Bells Corners
Signed Certificate of Performance
WSIB Clearance and Liability Proof
Before-and-After Photo Report
Written Quote Back Within 24 Hours
Which Nepean kitchens get cleaned
Grease loading, not floor space, decides how a kitchen gets scheduled. These are the room types that make up the work across this part of Ottawa.
| Kitchen type | What drives the grease load | Typical visit window |
|---|---|---|
| Independent restaurants on the retail strips | Charbroilers, open flat-tops and daily deep frying along Merivale Road, Robertson Road and Strandherd Drive put more airborne grease into a canopy than any other room type here. | Overnight after last service |
| Quick-service and franchise locations | Continuous fryer duty across long opening hours, with a head-office cleaning schedule that has to be evidenced. | Early morning before open |
| Club, arena and event kitchens | Burst cooking around games, tournaments and bookings, then quiet stretches while the deposit bakes on. | Between bookings |
| Institutional and campus food service | Steady volume cooking on a fixed academic or care calendar, with documentation attached to a facility file. | Scheduled closure or holiday period |
| Contract-catered staff cafeterias | Weekday-only lunch service in the office and light-industrial buildings along Colonnade Road and the Bells Corners business parks. | Weekday evening or weekend |
Residential range hoods are not serviced. NFPA 96 governs commercial cooking operations, so a domestic kitchen falls outside both the standard and this scope.
How much does hood cleaning cost in Nepean in 2026?
Hood cleaning in Nepean starts at $385 per visit for a single-hood kitchen and $725 per visit for a multi-hood line, with a written site quote above that. Every price is confirmed in writing before the booking.
| Kitchen | Price from | What the visit covers |
|---|---|---|
| Single-hood kitchen | $385 per visit | One canopy up to ten feet. Canopy, baffle filters, grease troughs and cups, and the plenum behind the filters, cleaned in one visit. |
| Multi-hood kitchen | $725 per visit | Two to four canopies cleaned in sequence in the same visit. Each canopy is photographed and itemised separately on the certificate. |
| Institutional and event kitchens | Written site quote | Campus and care food service, arena and community centre kitchens, and buildings with long or shared duct risers. The walk-through costs nothing. |
A full breakdown of what moves a price up or down sits on the hood cleaning cost guide, and the machine-readable version lives at pricing.md.
Where in Nepean the crew works
Coverage stays inside Nepean and the three communities beside it, which is what keeps a return visit or a re-clean quick to arrange.
Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros covers the Merivale Road retail corridor and the plazas around Baseline Road and Woodroffe Avenue, the Centrepointe and Ben Franklin Place area, the residential-adjacent commercial pockets in City View, Craig Henry, Crestview, Manordale, Parkwood Hills and Arlington Woods, and the business parks along Colonnade Road and the Rideau Heights area.
Barrhaven is on the same rotation: the Strandherd Drive and Greenbank Road plazas, the Marketplace retail cluster, and the arena and community-centre kitchens south of Fallowfield Road. Bells Corners is covered along Robertson Road and the Moodie Drive employment lands. Manotick is covered through the village core near Bridge Street and the businesses along Rideau Valley Drive and Prince of Wales Drive. Full detail sits on the areas served page.
Nepean amalgamated into the City of Ottawa in 2001, so Ottawa Fire Services is the authority having jurisdiction for fire safety here. There is no separate Nepean fire department, and Ottawa Fire Services inspectors are the people most likely to ask to see the certificate and the photo report that close every visit.
What happens on a visit
The sequence is the same whether the kitchen is a single-hood cafe or a four-canopy event line.
- Free walk-through and written quote. The system is measured and inspected, and the quote comes back in writing within 24 hours. The invoice matches the quote.
- Paperwork before the truck. Proof of WSIB coverage and liability insurance is delivered before any crew sets foot in the kitchen.
- Booked outside service hours. Overnight, early morning, or between bookings, so no shift is lost.
- Clean to the NFPA 96 limit. The exhaust path is degreased to the 0.078 inch limit the standard sets, and containment protects the equipment underneath.
- Documented before you open. Before-and-after photographs of every cleaned surface, a signed certificate referencing the NFPA 96 standard, and a dated service sticker on the hood.
The step-by-step detail of the clean itself sits on the hood cleaning page, and the duct and rooftop side of it on the kitchen exhaust cleaning page.
Three services, and where each one stops
Pick the scope that matches the problem, or start with the services overview if the kitchen has never been on a schedule.
Kitchen exhaust cleaning
Everything past the duct collar: vertical risers, horizontal runs, access panels and the fan on the roof, which is where a hood-only clean leaves the fire risk behind.
Commercial hood cleaning
The buyer side: restaurants, quick-service, club and event kitchens, campus and care food service, and the documentation a compliance file needs.
Common questions from Nepean operators
How often does a Nepean restaurant need its hood cleaned?
NFPA 96 sets inspection frequency by cooking volume, not by calendar habit. Solid-fuel and high-volume operations are inspected quarterly, moderate-volume kitchens semi-annually, and low-volume kitchens annually. Most independent restaurants along Merivale Road or Strandherd Drive running a fryer and a charbroiler land on a quarterly or semi-annual schedule. The cleaning frequency guide maps the schedule to real kitchen types.
Will the kitchen have to close for the cleaning?
No. Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros books overnight, early morning, or between bookings, and the containment comes down before the first prep cook arrives. A single-hood kitchen is normally finished inside one visit.
Who inspects hood cleaning in Nepean?
Ottawa Fire Services is the authority having jurisdiction, because Nepean has been part of the City of Ottawa since 2001 and has no separate fire department. Inspectors work from the Ontario Fire Code, which uses NFPA 96 as its technical baseline, and the certificate and dated sticker left on the hood are what evidence the last clean.
Is Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros certified by the NFPA?
No, and no cleaning company is. The NFPA publishes standards and does not certify contractors. Nepean Hood Cleaning Pros cleans to the published NFPA 96 standard and names that standard on the certificate, which is what gives the document weight with an inspector or an insurer. It is not affiliated with the NFPA.
Does the price cover the rooftop fan as well as the hood?
The from-$385 single-hood price covers the hood assembly. Whether the duct run and the rooftop fan are included depends on access, roof height and duct length, so both are priced during the free walk-through and confirmed in the written quote. Most Nepean kitchens book the hood and the duct as one visit.